https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... 5&start=75The stats are that companies that change their pricing 3-4 times a year do best
1. I never knew that: I change my pricing every 2 years and have been running for 20 years: I can imagine what would happen if I changed my pricing 3-4 times a year (I'd be dead in the water in very short order).
2. It would be quite interesting to know where those statistics come from and what type of company they refer to.
OK, I had to go and check 'SaaS':Over 70% of businesses are using SaaS software these days, a percentage that grows every year
Dunno: I did a Q-&-D bit of research: i.e. contacted 50 businesses I know and found that 48 of them use LibreOffice, and 2 of them use google Docs.Software as a service (SaaS) allows users to connect to and use cloud-based apps over the Internet. Common examples are email, calendaring, and office tools (such as Microsoft Office 365).
Why am I naturally suspicious of people talking about statistics without actually referencing those statistics?
Probably because I have always worked in either an academic environment or on the edges of one: and know that any student/academic who produces "rabbits out of hats" is going to get in deep trouble very quickly indeed if they cannot support their pronouncements properly.
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I also am unclear about how moving one's development suite from a desktop basis to a web-browser basis (and it is not at all clear if in the latter everything happens 'in the cloud' or from software sitting on individuals' computers) makes something that was something that was not 'SaaS' into Software as a Service, or whether that is just a specious excuse to play "tiddley-poms" with pricing: moving from sales to rentals.
At the moment one of my sons has a mortgage on a property (which he pays off at exactly the same rate he'd pay rent on the same property) for the simple reason that paying rent is lost money: after 20 years of renting you end up with nothing, while after 20 years of paying a mortgage you end up with some property.
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Why have I started a thread called "Learning/Problems from across the way #6" ?
Because, like it or not, decisions made 'across the way' do and will have an effect on OpenXTalk.
I would argue that anyone who wishes to use xTalk and is not fussed about the fact that their end-product will end up as Open Source (remember you CAN charge money for Open Source software) would be better to donate $50 HERE to have a developer work on new engines (and specifically one to work on Mac ARM processors) than fritter the same sum away on 5-6 weeks rental elsewhere.
